Forests, trees and woodlands cover almost one-third of the Earth’s land area. They are a crucial source of food and income for more than a billion people around the globe. They provide a variety of wood and non-wood products and vital ecosystem services – preventing erosion from wind and water, preserving water quality, shading crops and livestock, absorbing carbon which contributes to countering climate change, and providing habitat for many species of plants and animals, thus helping to conserve the planet’s biological diversity.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2009Angola, Liechtenstein, Bangladesh, États-Unis d'Amérique, Congo, Comores, Cameroun, Ouzbékistan, Suisse, Kenya, Zambie, Danemark, Rwanda, Philippines, Kirghizistan, Italie, Brésil, Tunisie, Argentine, Soudan, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, République tchèque
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Library ResourcePublication évaluée par des pairsmai, 2009Italie, Europe, Asie
Monetary instruments to regulate parking are often used in central areas of cities to discourage long term parking of vehicles. The availability of parking facilities, and its cost, in fact represents an important element in the decision to operate private vehicles in urban areas. The availability of instruments and tools to check the outcome of modification in parking regulations, in terms of modification of car use, successfully support planners in the determination of the best policies to decrease congestion, and regulate the use of transportation in cities.
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Library ResourceDocuments et rapports de conférencedécembre, 2009Suisse, États-Unis d'Amérique, Allemagne, Danemark, Italie, Ghana, Norvège, Europe, Asie, Afrique, Amérique centrale, Amérique septentrionale, Amérique du Sud, Océanie
The paper reveals that ever since the 1950s, after the first land reform of distributing landownership (or possession under public ownership) to small farmers, the irrational and polyopolisticland use by able-bodied part-time and absent small farmers earning higher off-farm income butunwilling to lease the under-producing land beyond their family consumption need to full-timefarmers, has been a global obstacle with both public and private land ownership, traditional andmodern agriculture, fragmented small and consolidatorily enlarged land, low and high incomeeconomies, food under-self-suffi
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresoctobre, 2009Italie
An analysis is made of the land use transformations over the last sixty years, as well as the consequences of these transformations on the naturalness of the territories of three municipalities of the Nuovo Circondario Imolese (Bologna, Italy). The selected municipalities are: Medicina, Borgo Tossignano and Castel del Rio, which represent the main territorial aspects of the Nuovo Circondario Imolese.The land use transformations are quantified through the GIS comparison of the land use maps of the years 1995, 1976, 1994 and 2003.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2009Italie
Over one hundred wetland specialists and Earth Observation experts from around the world gathered at the European Space Agency's 'GlobWetland Symposium: Looking at wetlands from space' in Frascati, Italy, from 19 to 20 October, 2006. The aim of the Symposium was to stimulate discussion between the two communities by reviewing the latest developments in Earth Observation (EO) for the inventory, assessment and monitoring of wetlands and identify key scientific, technical and policy-relevant challenges for the future.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2009Italie
The need to develop approaches for risk-based management of soil contamination, as well as the integration of the assessment of the human health risk (HHR) due to the soil contamination in the urban planning procedures has been the subject of recent attention of scientific literature and policy makers. The spatial analysis of environmental data offers multiple advantages for studying soil contamination and HHR assessment, facilitating the decision making process.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2009France, Belgique, Espagne, Gambie, Croatie, Burundi, Chine, Bulgarie, Autriche, Congo, Rwanda, Chypre, États-Unis d'Amérique, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Albanie, Australie, Italie, Portugal, Sénégal, Mongolie, Canada, Europe, Asie, Afrique, Amérique septentrionale
The completion of this comprehensive harmonized soil information database will improve estimation of current and future land potential productivity, help identify land and water limitations, and enhance assessing risks of land degradation, particularly soil erosion. The HWSD contributes sound scientific knowledge for planning sustainable expansion of agricultural production and for guiding policies to address emerging land competition issues concerning food production, bio-energy demand and threats to biodiversity.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2009Guinée équatoriale, Brésil, États-Unis d'Amérique, Chili, Allemagne, Chine, Indonésie, Australie, Canada, Italie, Îles Salomon, Nouvelle-Zélande, Malaisie, Myanmar, Thaïlande, Inde, Fédération de Russie, Gabon, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, Mongolie, Asie
Developments in China will have substantial impacts on forestry in the rest of the region. This wide-ranging country outlook study discusses a host of topics including prospects for China's afforestation/reforestation efforts, supply and demand for forest products and ecological services, key drivers of change, impacts of globalization, policy developments, and social objectives of forestry.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2009Honduras, Belgique, Mali, Colombie, Royaume-Uni, Grèce, Malawi, Niger, Cameroun, Nigéria, Portugal, Afrique du Sud, Nicaragua, Italie, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Botswana, Paraguay
Moyennant une analyse conceptuelle basée sur les traités et les instruments internationaux et deux études de pays, cette étude aborde la relation qui existe entre les droits humains, notamment le droit à une nourriture adéquate, et l’accès aux ressources naturelles, en accordant une attention particulière à la terre.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2009Bangladesh, Suisse, États-Unis d'Amérique, Chine, Sri Lanka, Indonésie, Australie, Éthiopie, Niger, Uruguay, Thaïlande, Japon, Italie, Pays-Bas, Tunisie, Inde
يشهد قطاع الثروة الحيوانية تحولاً سريعاً استجابة للتحولات التي تحدث في الاقتصاد العالمي وتغير توقعات المجتمع. فالمجتمع يتوقع من قطاع الثروة الحيوانية أن يوفر أغذية وأليافاً مأمونة ووفيرة لأعداد متزايدة من سكان الحضر، وأن يوفر سُبل العيش لأكثر من مليار شخص من المنتجين والتجار الفقراء، وكذلك السلع العامة العالمية المتعلقة بالأمن الغذائي، والاستدامة البيئية، والأمراض التي تحملها الحيوانات. ولكن سرعة وتيرة التغير أدت إلى نمو القطاع بطريقة غير متوازنة.
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